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815: 40: 349:, morals, remorse, love, etc., the overall conclusion being that the only aim in life is "to enjoy oneself at no matter whose expense." Juliette takes this to the extreme and manages to murder her way through numerous people, including various family members and friends. 360:. She befriends the ferocious Clairwil, whose main passion is the murder of boys and young men, as revenge for the general brutality of men toward women. She meets Saint Fond, a 50-year-old multi-millionaire who murders his father, commits 399:"Braschi." She also flaunts her learning with a verbal, yet highly detailed, catalogue of alleged immoralities committed by his papal predecessors. Their conversation ends (like nearly every scene in the narrative) with an 403:, in which Pope Pius is portrayed as a secret libertine. While discussing murder, Braschi notes that cruelty is essential to pleasure, remarking that "killing is not enough, one must kill in hideous style". 376:. The novel also contains several scenes of "fetishism, exhibitionism, voyeurism, sexual masochism, sexual sadism, paedophilia, zoophilia, and necrophilia", as well as horrific sexual violence. 406:
Soon after this, the male character Brisatesta narrates two scandalous encounters. The first is with "Princess Sophia, niece of the King of Prussia," who has just married "the Stadtholder" at
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During her tour of Europe, Juliette encounters a series of libertines, including several historical figures who are all portrayed as depraved. A long audience with
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and other such concepts are meaningless. There are plenty of similar philosophical musings during the book, all attacking the ideas of
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ordered the arrest of the author, and as a result de Sade was incarcerated without trial for the last thirteen years of his life.
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follows a pattern of violently pornographic scenes followed by long treatises on a broad range of philosophical topics, including
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with his daughter, tortures young girls to death on a daily basis, and even plots an ambitious scheme to provoke a
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that will wipe out half the population of France. She also becomes acquainted with Minski, a gigantic ogre-like
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The majority of the novel is a first-person narrative in which the amoral Juliette recounts to her moral sister
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murderer who is successful and happy. The full title of the novel in the original French is
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engages in virtually every form of depravity and encounters a series of like-minded
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woman who consequently encountered nothing but despair and abuse, Juliette is an
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who delights in raping and torturing young boys and girls to death before
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was published thirty years later. The second encounter is with
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During Juliette's life from age 13 to about 30, the wanton
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Austryn Wainhouse
Marquis de Sade
Libertine
philosophical novel
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Marquis de Sade
1797
1801
Justine
virtuous
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nymphomaniac
theology
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